A few years ago someone at work told us about Dyngus Day. It is the first Monday after Easter. It is a polish-american celebration involving beer, pussywillows, and water. For some reason we always celerated at work with a cake, periogies, and kabasa. Well 2010 I decided to have a real Dyngus Day party. Logan and I found a few different kinds of polish beer, after a long search and we partied. This year Amanda and I did not have a good luck with the poilsh beer, we found 12 bottles! We had perogies, a buttered lamb, kabasa, sausge, hotdogs, hot kabasa, chocolate polish words, the sweetest Dyngus day cake EVER, and of course Bud light This year we had a few new people join us for Dyngus Day. We ate a little, drank alot, played some beer pong flip cup (GIRLS RULE!) and of course got into a pussywillow fight!

TRADITIONAL DYNGUS RHYMEIn rural Poland the tradition of Dyngus Day also included the traveling to neighbor’s homes, going door-to-door looking for treats. Often these treats were hard boiled eggs other Easter foods. While knocking on the door, youth would exclaim the following rhyme.

.Smigus! Dyngus! All for fun, Dump some water with a smile! If not from a cup, then from a pitcher, Smigus-Dyngus starts at dawn! It’s an old Polish custom, just so you’ll know and not yell, when on the second day of Easter, your jacket’s all soaking wet